Hi,
Postgres hasn't worked on Win98 since Cygwin switched to cygserver for memory management instead of ipc_daemon. I believe 7.4.3 was the version to require cygserver to run.
Mike
>
> On Mon, Sep 20, 2004 at 08:42:50AM +0200, Christian Rank wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I'm trying to run the Cygwin version of PostgreSQL on Windows 98 SE.
> > During initdb, creation of the initial database cluster is aborted with
> > the message
> > creating template1 database in /var/pgsql/data/base/1...
> > shmat(id=1179648) failed: invalid argument
> >
> > The sequence of commands leading to this is as follows:
> >
> > mkdir /var/pgsql
> > export CYGWIN=server
> > /usr/bin/cygserver-config -n
> > /usr/sbin/cygserver -E &
> > mkdir /var/pgsql/data
> > initdb -D /var/pgsql/data -E LATIN1
> >
> > Software versions used:
> > cygwin 1.5.11-1
> > PostgreSQL 7.4.5-1
> > Windows 98 Second Edition 4.10.2222 A
> >
> > The same setup runs on Windows 2000 without problems. According to the
> > cygserver docs, it should run on Win98, too.
> >
> > Does anybody know what's going wrong here?
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> > Christian
> >
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